Next Sunday is What Are We Reading day, and I must say that participation has been abysmal. I get it, I’m not everyone’s favorite Glib, I’m not a black-pilled Trumpster or a Tucker Carlson parrot. I’m not all in on the “Jan 6er’s didn’t do nuttin'” or “Everyone left of Ted Cruz is a commie” takes. I can see why that might annoy some of you people, and that’s alright, but not participating in WAWR isn’t the way to display your displeasure with me. It doesn’t hurt me, it only hurts the site and your fellow republicans in Glib clothing. Work on the puzzle and then put aside your petty biases and spitefulness and send in a quick book report/review, or not it’s all the same to me if you want to leave all the work to Fourscore and Richard.
*Don’t slap women, unless they’re into that kind of thing.
Reminder: The last Sunday of each month is “What Are We Reading” Day so if you want to participate get your reports in to HeyBuddyStopDoingThat@protonmail.com by the second to last Sunday.
You’re my favorite Glib.
And you forgot “contrarian”.
Firsters don’t have time for foreplay.
More evidence that MikeS has never been First at anything
☝🏻
Such a burden you bear! And with such grace and dignity!
Not sure if him or bro is the better troll. I mean that in the nicest way possible. I enjoy both of theirs comments when they post seriously, but they both also do stuff just to get a rise out of others.
He or bro
HeBro and Shebrah?
I appreciate that actually, thank you.
It’s funny because Hype chooses to associate with the closet Republicans here. In his everyday life, his opinions would bring him no particular scorn in the hellhole that is Cleveland. The average Glib has to actually live in the closet in everyday life because our politics are considered extreme. Family, “friends,” co-workers etc would turn on most of us in an instant if they realized we were among the deplorables.
But he pretends as if his views are difficult to hold because he’s somehow persecuted on an obscure libertarian website he chooses to post on as compared to us group thinkers who have to live everyday holding extreme minority positions even among the right.
The only thing he’s right on is that a significant number of libertarians have drifted closer to the Republican sphere since Obama and the rise of Trump while conservatives themselves have become more libertarian-ish in their distrust of government and institutions.
Add in that the libertinish libertarians have embraced leftist government because the right wingers are going to take away their pot and ass sex.
I don’t live in Cleveland
That sounds just like someone who lives in Cleveland would say!
You should. it suits you.
I’m sure as hell not your average Glib.
Contradiction in terms
There are Mean Glibs, Median Glibs, and Mode Glibs, what kind are we talking about?
I think of myself as a Nonstandard Deviation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem
It’s a handy bit of math. However, because it is usually taught like this wiki page with sigma notation it’s rough for non math people to grasp. That would have been me initially.
Run a few practical examples with real numbers and it’s much easier to intuit.
Arithmetic, Geometric, or Just Plain Mean?
Tried my hand at a cauliflower pizza crust today. Good but I didn’t get all the water out of the cauliflower. Last night I made my first pizza dough too.
I have a freezer full of meat I need to start going through before the move. Shipping it seems cost prohibitive.
Classic Hype. Hey, you’re wrong and probably just an NPC parrot, now help me out.
I think you need to work on your sales pitch.
Jedi mind trick. Libertarians are very reactant, thus insults may succeed where honey failed.
I was gonna send one in anyway, since I actually have good important books to report on.
Richard Scarry books don’t count.
Actually, maybe The Big Book of Manners would be applicable around here.
Children are the most important thing in the world, so you’re wrong.
Even Bro’ and Hype’?
Special children are even more precious to God. 😛
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E03/338721
I think it’s rather presumptuous of him to think anyone cares enough about him to not do something because of him.
Articles…where we’re going we don’t need articles.
Things I never thought I’d say.
La Guardia isn’t that bad anymore.
I think the last time I flew in/out of there it was on the old NY-DC shuttle.
Ill be wandering around ORD tomorrow for the 4th time in as many weeks. Im getting to like the place.
Weren’t you just there? Stop leaving your coke dust around like Hunter. https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/07/23/martinez-refining-company-reports-second-coke-dust-release-in-less-than-two-weeks/
It was under heavy construction the last time I was there.
I haz a sad: LAS tomorrow; I hate the town and only dislike the airport
via DFW which will be inches from the former life I haven’t glimpsed in about five years
Wut?
It seems lately that more and more news stories are prompting folks here to say “bring back asylums”. There was an opinion piece in the WSJ recently saying the same thing. It’s a good read:
It’s Time to Bring Back Asylums
I’ve been wondering why some glibs both want to increase spending AND give the state more power over society.
I can think of a few justifications, but I wouldn’t mind someone presenting an argument.
We can start with private asylums. Most politicians and communists are eligable for institutionalization.
Er, “most”?
I’m sure some could be rehabilitated.
The state is presented with an almost binary choice at the moment, prison or on the streets. If we’re going to have a detention system, it would make some sense to at least have an option for treatment.
I suppose the real issue is that the prison system is a glorified gulag.
Can you elaborate on why we should have a state treatment system?
The state’s role (if we are to have one) should be to keep dangerous people from hurting others, not to treat society’s ills.
Because when I walk from the parking garage to the office I prefer to not see people shitting in the bushes?
The original justification for Public Health – sanitation!
I’m willing to bet that isn’t just a social faux pas, but a criminal act under your local civic code.
How is this so fucking hard to understand?
I never said people should be allowed to do whatever, especially not public defection… My question is why and how are mental institutions the best solution to this problem?
Shitting in the bushes does not = crazy. Especially to the level of being institutionalized which is how this topic of discussion started.
I think you have look at what you’re actually asking for here and ponder if it’s actually proportionate or appropriate for what the issue is. Blue shit holes have these problems while other areas do not. If someone does shit in the bushes, it’s a crime and dealt with at a far more appropriate level typically than locking someone in an asylum.
This is all before we get to the issue of how prone to abuse this system would be.
Shitting in the bushes is a symptom of a problem, the problem is not being able to provide for themselves, for one reason or another. Unwilling or unable.
I see a chicken and egg effect there.
Vagrants tend to concentrate in densely populated areas where there are lots of other vagrants and lots of marks who might give them money.
Densely populated areas tend to become blue shit holes for reasons that are too complex to go into here but have been discussed at length here and there.
There is hardly a comfy spot for vagrants to gather in America that isn’t already a blue shit hole.
So, what would you suggest we do with the occasional violent maniac roaming the streets? The State, with its power and money, would damn sure put me in the slammer if I did violence on one of them to defend myself.
Personally, I’m fine with sending such violent people to prison for very long times. Case in point in this article, the guy who was killed on the subway had 40 prior convictions, having just beat up an old lady a few days before his death. I don’t understand why he was off the streets, except that NY is just that way.
It’s not a coincidence that the increase in the profile of the homelessness and mental health issues are coming after so called police and bail reforms.
Obviously in my ideal society you also wouldn’t be arrested for self defense.
Prison for violent people, sane or otherwise, is probably the only solution we have.
That seems to work, I’m not sure why some places have abandoned that model.
I am absolutely in the camp of bringing back asylums. The vast majority of the homeless on the streets are severely mentally ill and/or addicted to narcotics. The prison population gain in the United States almost perfectly tracks the vast reduction of asylums. California (and the two other West Coast states) has effectively decriminalized drugs. This has not led to a decrease in addicts. Full legalization and the attendant widespread sale and advertising of narcotics would almost certainly lead to many more addicts. A fair percentage of those addicts are going to end up living on the streets in squalor. All of the corresponding social ills that these type addicts bring have increased. Asylums at least provide a chance at treatment for those that are no longer able to care for themselves and that are currently creating third world conditions in many cities, especially on the West Coast where decriminilization has already happened.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Rates-of-institutionalization-in-the-United-States-per-100-000-adults-1934-2001_fig1_274957643
Agreed, it’s unfortunate but asylums are sorely needed. What we have now and all the attendant criminality and public batshit insanity is unsustainable.
“The prison population gain in the United States almost perfectly tracks the vast reduction of asylums. ”
That may be more coincidental than you think. War on drugs, and tougher crime policies raised the rate of incarceration which doesn’t have a ton to do with mental illness. In the WSJ piece it seemed like they only had an estimated 120k insane people on the streets (20% of 600k)
Maybe we’ll should look closer at Portugal’s model of decriminalization before we ramp up state asylums at a cost of 200k/year/inmate.
Or maybe tough on crime was partially a response to all the inmates being let out of the asylum…?
Didn’t the rise in incarceration track pretty closely to the dive in violent crime?
Yes, pretty close correlation.
Indeed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/07/portugal-drugs-decriminalization-heroin-crack/
Thanks, I was looking for one of those.
Here’s the article sans paywall: https://archive.fo/iWbOk
Oh hey, look at that.
Wherever there is a degenerative social issue that cries out for a solution, there will be a government or “non-government” (but really government) bureaucracy there to keep it thriving. There lifeblood depends on it that problem going nowhere.
The reminder that pro-drug cultures also tend to be fanatically anti-nicotine and anti-sugar triggers a thought.
Is it not the case that drug addicts “cost more” to society – the same excuse they use to go after nicotine and sugar?
Its two different groups of people. The indigent are always going to be treated differently than the tax payers, and the basis of that is how you control the groups. Street people need to be nurtured, and normies need to be lectured. Both of which provide jobs for progressives.
People inclined to addiction are going to be addicts regardless of the legal status of the substance they abuse. Non-addicts are not all that likely to suddenly slip into addiction. I don’t see a horror show for full legalization – though I am sure there will be very emotional anecdotes, just as there are now.
It will a horror-show in predictable, concentrated areas. Are we OK with that? I don’t know if I am, especially when many of those areas cannot be avoided by the rest of us going about our business.
Who is actually deterred from addiction by the current regime?
I don’t care about that.
I do care about increasing areas turning into shitholes which seems to be the inevitable result of recent legalization policies. I would not have any quibbles if all the addicts would kindly refrain from shooting up on the sidewalk and robbing passersby for their next fix.
The issue there, in my opinion, isn’t so much drug legalization itself, but that the places where drugs have been legalized are also politically dysfunctional in a million different ways. This is similar to the immigration thing I commented on several days ago, where I said I’d support unlimited immigration in an environment where all of the economic, social, and cultural limiting principles hadn’t been regulated out of existence. For the sake of argument, let’s say that in some alternate universe Texas passed the exact same weed legalization laws as, say, California or Colorado, leaving all else the same. Even in the liberal big cities like Houston, Austin and Dallas, do you really suppose you’d see the same dysfunction as, say, San Francisco? I can tell you that here in Nevada, the shit hole parts of Las Vegas haven’t changed appreciably since we legalized weed (crack and meth being the predominant drugs in those areas to begin with). Even out here where I live, despite the town growing from around 30k to around 45k in population in the last 10 years, I drive through town and see the same bums panhandling the same corners, and the same dealers slinging the same meth at the same spots. Other than having to occasionally smell some inconsiderate person’s cloud of pot smoke, the town hasn’t descended into criminal madness. It’s just unfortunate that the only places willing to experiment with drug legalization also happen to be crime-enabling shit holes.
Heh, that seems like a particularly unbelievable universe.
But good food for thought.
Bullshit. Legal status, opportunity, availability, and consequences absolutely affect rates.
Absolutely agreed GL. It’s not just due to custom that alcohol is the most widely used intoxicant in the United States and elsewhere. I think JL is also completely disregarding the effects advertising does have now on alcohol usage and would certainly have on opiates or amphetamines if fully legalized.
I’d still say there’s likely a pretty hard upper limit on the percentage of the population that’s going to go get addicted to smack just because it’s available on the shelf at Rite-Aid instead of the alley behind Rite-Aid. And I will always stick by the contention that, whatever the real percentage ends up being, saving that percentage of the population from its own depravity isn’t worth limiting the liberty of everyone else.
hard upper limit
@Pat
Glibs are never more right than when they point to basic decency and social genetics for the credit in why things work as well as they do.
There are, for example, zero chances than 88% of my neighbors could be coerced into stealing my lawn furniture or breaking into my house while I’m on holiday. It is a fair question what to do with the other 12%.
Would legalization induce you to partake to a self destructive degree?
It’s never “I’m gonna go become a junkie” and you know that.
“Full legalization and the attendant widespread sale and advertising of narcotics would almost certainly lead to many more addicts.”
Disagree. A few, sure. But addicts are, in my opinion, born not made. I think some people just have addictive personalities. Giving drugs to someone who isn’t predisposed to addiction isn’t going to create an addict, most times. And someone who is predisposed will find drugs regardless.
I think there is a sweet spot where people who have addictive personalities will indulge their addictions only if it is reasonably easy to do so.
Ask me how I know.
Sugar!!!
Imagine if, in order to get your sugar fix, you had to go outside and hang out in the car of some sketchy sugar-dealer – one who is new to you because the last one got thrown in jail.
Or, you could just let your roommate do it for you.
I am dude #2.
You’re the replacement sugar dealer?
What are your rates?
Sugar, Sugar, Suga.
40 dollars.
Not the same as downtown.
I’m a little surprised that nobody has expressed concern for how quickly such a measure could easily snowball into new and exciting ways for the State to reclassify what constitutes severe mental illness. I imagine it wouldn’t be too much of a leap to begin by “addressing” the homeless issue(while continuing to advocate the same shit that has hastened the cultural rot in the first place) then get the bright idea that maybe if you can’t just imprison your political and philosophical enemies, just declare them too unstable to be allowed to engage with the public. Put it sympathizing terms(The poor dears just got their brains scrambled by too much exposure to [X] group, idea, whatever, they need our help!).
It’s not as if we all haven’t read articles or even said ourselves on this very site that only the truly crazy can believe [X]? Well, call me crazy but I have absolutely no confidence whatsoever that this wouldn’t be expanded upon and abused by the government in the most cynical, vindictive way possible.
Agreed.
This issue doesn’t have any easy answers, does it.
That’s a very good point.
‘how quickly such a measure could easily snowball into new and exciting ways for the State to reclassify what constitutes severe mental illness’
Only a crazy person wouldn’t take this government approved safe and effective vaccine.
“Put simply, civil libertarians and disability rights advocates have largely replaced psychiatrists as the arbiters of care for the severely mentally ill. And a fair number of them, with the best of intentions, seem to view the choices of those they represent as an alternative lifestyle rather than the expression of a sickness requiring aggressive medical care.”
In my opinion it isn’t that this is an alternate lifestyle choice so much as that the state shouldn’t have the power to lock up nonviolent people.
“Meanwhile, state mental hospitals continue to shrink. Gone is the laundry list of afflictions that marked asylum life in the 1950s. The majority of the current patients are there “involuntarily”—people who have been judged a danger to themselves or to others, who have been found not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity, or who are being evaluated for their competency to stand trial. Because so many psychiatric beds have disappeared, the waiting period for admission can take months, which means that inmates languish in jail without having been convicted of a crime.”
This part sounds like it’s own problem, the courts don’t move nearly fast enough in this country.
“In 2015 Massachusetts spent $55,000 per prison inmate, with some additional costs for those with serious mental health issues. Meanwhile, the Worcester Recovery Center, with an annual budget of $60 million, spent close to four times that sum per patient. ”
Oof, $200k/year per resident. That isn’t sustainable, or fair to taxpayers.
I’m with you on this. People arguing that it is sorely needed have to ask themselves how this differs from any other form of special pleading for the curtailment of rights. The left would argue that a crackdown on free speech is sorely needed. The difference can’t just be that transients shitting on the sidewalks or shooting up near schools is your hobby horse. Those are quality of life issues, but the people where that behavior is tolerated choose to live there.
You are also kidding yourself if you don’t think this would be abused.
We should be asking ourselves why our culture is breeding so much of this because it isn’t a universal problem. It starts with culture and the solution is not political action. Focus on your own neighborhoods and families. It starts there.
This I’ll agree with. We’re gonna end up with an El Slavador-style solution, but if each would take care of his own, we would be far better off.
Hear hear.
Growing up, I had the experience of more than one family member or close family friend having to spend time in an inpatient psychiatric facility. If my parents had back all the money they spent helping those people out over the years they probably could have retired comfortably instead of both dying on Medicaid. I get the difficulty of helping, treating, and warehousing the mentally ill. If not for a half dozen lengthy stays at the Eastern State Hospital psych ward, one of my dad’s oldest friends would likely have died on the streets. And despite all of that, there is no fucking way in hell I want the state bringing back public facilities where they can drug, abuse, and warehouse people based on the whimsical diagnostic criteria of a pseudo-medical profession that has gone from, for example, pathologizing homosexuality to pathologizing homophobia in the span of 50 short years. Most of you would rightly shit your britches over so-called “red flag” laws that allow the state to confiscate your guns based on the same shallow diagnostic criteria you’re willing to allow the state to use to forcibly drug and imprison someone. Get back to the basics. Our own R.C. Dean’s iron law: “Me today, you tomorrow.” If you don’t want to be the first parent who gets committed to a state facility and spends 30 years on a thorazine drip because you refused to let the state and its trusted medical experts give your prepubescent daughter hormone therapy and a mastectomy, don’t open that fucking door.
Far better put than my take. And earlier…dammit.
So I guess the alternative is watching people shit on my way to work and hoping the neighborhood masterbater doesn’t spill his jizz on me as I make my way to the office.
Dude – that’s exactly why we are where we are. Most everyone wants someone else to be responsible, not themselves.
Our culture is breeding so much of this due, mainly, in that there is little social cohesion left in the country, most norms of behavior or trust have been demolished, and what is right and what is acceptable is no longer universal. Every other country is ether socially homogenous* or authoritiarian to a much hight degree. So, when a country that has high trust talks about putting the mentally ill away, there is trust that they won’t be abused, or that the program itself wont be abused. Think Switzerland, or Finnland. But when you talk about an authoritarian country, like Russia or Indonisia, than the fears of the program not working mount. Also, countries with high stigma in regards to mental illness, such as Japan, can fall on either side of that divide depending on perspective.
We don’t have a hight trust society, and so we fear the second answer.
* and groups like the EU and world bank are doing everything to fuck this up.
All of this is by design. Deliberate choices were made to get us here.
And it’s not at all just the U.S. That Portugal link Tundra posted makes that abundantly clear.
Very few of us were alive when it was shut down – largely due to the endemic abuse. People that work in warehouses of unwanted people aren’t exactly the most motivated to provide caring service.
The political aspect is well established based on the history of Soviet psychiatry.
This line did leave me cold:
Is someone who has ten convictions for shoplifting non violent? What about someone who has blown diarrhea all over someone’s front door?
Are they mentally ill?
Yes, but they also are more emboldened to do that act, which I witnessed, from some poor shmuck’s door handle to threshold instead of across the street in some bushes because they know there will be no chance of getting locked up because of it.
Those are clear violations of the NAP.
Those are clear violations of the NAP
I recently noticed Gene Epstein’s zero-aggression principle. is ZAP better than NAP in any important ways?
*rubs shoes on carpet*
*touches Don*
ZAP
No. A ZAP is still clearly a violation of NAP.
Mahalo for the reminder. I sent in some current reading.
Also, since this is Glibs. “You are not my supervisor you slaver!”
I got the Hank Williams biography that fourscore sent me, I’ll try to read it next few days.
Oh, it’s raining in San Diego right now,
Cheers!🍻
I don’t participate in What Are We Reading day because saying I’m on book X of The Expanse gets old.
Likewise ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Coding Handbook 2022 (Without Answers) by Nelly Leon-Chisen, RHIA.
Also, I’m proofreading the full-length version of this.
While running errands I was passed by a yellow ‘Vette. It got me to thinking.
Then I remembered I did have mustard in the fridge.
I take exception! I have participated in almost every GlibBook and continue to participate today!
https://archive.is/3O72m/4f1c1fd02299c3f7ff46fe3cd68a7c83498ab01c.jpg
NSFW.
To your point about Trumptards, I give a bit of shameless self-promotion:
https://www.glibertarians.com/2020/07/of-trumptards-and-crypto-progs/
https://archive.is/TovVq/7751019def7cb98f7f1131256433a3623e09e6ab.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/jJ0N1/0c55bfcb21549d3dc989655194e6d8c8b2a60e8b.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/TNXkj/39adf40744d1c7a60cd2e648b26fa90968cbf97b.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/NfgbN/d052255aa51cc7ec729316bfadc7e95d0c9ed29e.webp
NSFW.
For the record, I don’t hate Hype for his political beliefs. I hate Hype because he’s an disingenuous asshole who can’t really support his beliefs.
Name one.
Nothing? That’s what I figured. Cowards gonna be cowards.
Says the guy who stops responding in every argument HE starts?
I’m here all night , name a belief I hold that I won’t defend.
I’ll just pick an argument with you and watch you flee because it’s happened time and time again. There will be a post or two that gets shredded, then you stop responding. It’s your MO. And even then, calling what you put up a “defense” is ridiculous. It tends to be some attempt at undermining the other person’s position which is why people view you as a “contrarian” to put it nicely. The last resort before you flee a discussion is to grasp at straws and attempt to play word games like you did last week. I’ve pointed all of this out about you time and time again.
So you got nothing, good talk.
Coward
You can refer back to just last week. When backed into a corner, you resorted to your old tired bullshit where you latch onto some small detail to try and hang your entire argument. Trying to split hairs between people sorting out media hey watch before hand boiled down to you just can’t form an opinion. Then you ran from the argument when it was pointed out how absurd this was based on examples and observable patterns.
We all form opinions of media that is shit without watching every thing. Including your dopey ass.
But where were you? Started shit, as usual, then ran.
I start arguments?
::reflects on life choices::
That clinic is next door.
😝
self-promotion
wow: pretty good but I missed it at the time somehow: five stars
Thank you Sir.
My mom used to talk about A all the time. I was born about 9 months later. I dont want to think about it.
Everyone right of Ted Cruz is a commie too.
Ted Cruz is an odd dividing line to pick. He’s not exactly a rockstar to the Glibertariat.
How long are we gonna pretend everything is OK?
They aren’t coming for your gas stoves OR your generators, right wing extremist!
Right after I go pick up some lawn darts, incandescent light bulbs, and a normal flow toilet.
Suck it, flyover states. And victims of blackouts… oh.
That’s . . . batshit insane, right there.
They really do want your citizens to be utterly dependent on centralized supply of everything, don’t they? Justice, electricity, money, transport, the list seems endless. If this keeps up, the U.S. really will be run by six mega-corporations, à la Rollerball.
Cyberpunk 2077 doesn’t seem that far-fetched.
Time to chrome the fuck up.
Just don’t stick random chips in your head.
There is a reason I keep requoting Manhattan Contrarian’s opinion that the klimate krisis is the biggest hoax in world history.
Initially, I thought that was an exaggerated claim. I’m now on board.
fellow republicans in Glib clothing
My great-grandfather, son of a Confederate veteran, once declared the most grievous insult ever laid upon him, “why suh, he called me a Republican”.
I’ve been once since I first registered to vote.
I don’t see any inherent contradictions in hanging out with you degenerates. I hang out with democrats and leftists in meatspace (there’s an infestation areound where I live)
As long as disagreements are merely differences of opinion rather than evidence of evil, there are many people who can be sociable. (There are many people for whom discussion is impossible)
But then the parties switched!
Huh, my great grandfather was also the son of a Confederate veteran. You should have hears my (((mothers)))((((cousins))) tittering after that fact came out.
I hate war, but this is pretty funny.
Weapons of Ass Destruction
I hate war, but I’m starting to love Roseanne.
People whom I used to consider fucking lunatics have started to sound like sober-minded moderates because of how far and how rapidly the Overton window has shifted. Which is why I’m one of those types who Hype would consider some knuckle dragging Trumpist, despite having never voted for Trump. When the options on the menu are sister-fucking, gun-loving, 8th grade dropout Bible belt rednecks on the one hand, or on the other hand, educated, NPR-loving, genteel cosmopolitan sophisticates unironically driving the country to the brink of a hot war with a nuclear superpower when they aren’t glued to Twitter frothing at the mouth about how unjust it is that 40 year old men in women’s lingerie can’t flop their cock around in front of an 8 year old on puberty blockers, I’m choking down my snobbery and joining the tailgate.
Prof. Pat’s Advanced Sentence Diagramming (upperclassmen only)
Believe it or not, when I was a younger lad I actually had a gift for concision. I’m not sure when I lost it or where it went.
You didn’t have time to write a shorter post? 😉
English 414 (or some ridiculous 400 number). I thought I was good at diagramming sentences until I took that class.
Im still not clear on what a predicate nominative is.
” . . . I’m choking down my snobbery and joining the tailgate.”
Plus, and let’s be honest here, their grilling-fu is Teh Awesome.
I hate war, but I’m ok with drafting these fuckers.
“The State failed them, man! The State didn’t make their bike lane wide enough for them to ride side-by-side so’s they could talk to each other! We need another billion in funding!”
Can’t we save this for Festivus?
I got enough grievances for three or four Festivouses.
LOL
I laffed
some of the notes above are as good as Glibs gets; lots of honest discourse of the sort I was thrilled to find here years ago
Ran across an old Fortune while I was packing the other day. Headlines that aged well
Where is that dude these days, anyhow? And his plain-Jane girlfriend ?
Under house arrest in Palo Alto it would seem.
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/sam-bankman-fried-island-ex-lawsuits-18254756.php
And probably wishing brother Gabriel could have pulled the trigger on that Pacific island deal a bit quicker.
I been busy, Hype. Don’t think I am dissing you. Fairly effective trolling on your part.
‘salll good,
NewWife wants to know if anyone has an Evan von E update
I do not, but I’d like to invite NewWife to become a Glib – she already has her handle all set, and we’ll all know who she is.
She’s patient with me but unconvinced about libertarianism. I try to go easy around the house: she’s more your common-sense gun control type of center-right law and order gal. Those are probably most of my friends since I don’t really know any libertarians other than this fine assemblage. I’m too anarchish for reasonable people: I’d prefer in most cases no authority to abusive, over-reaching, grifting authority; she is relieved to know I’ll never live to see it.
My son has a user and has lurked, but I don’t think he’d ever post. He’s very outgoing and has held local positions with the LP in TX, but he’s got too much going on in his life for much in the way of social media.
LOL not a problem for me
Paging RJ
Mixing 2D and 3D animation is really tough with few studios doing it well. This isn’t one of them.
https://youtu.be/ga68wQ8Z4vU
GAMERA -Rebirth- | Official Main Trailer | English Sub
I saw the latest Puss N Boots movie with my daughter. The animation was sub par overall. The action scenes jumped to a totally different art style just like Gamera. It was jarring and did not seem well planned. It looked instead like a cut-rate team was hired for fight scene animation.
According to my weather station we have averaged about 14.3 inches of rainfall for April through July for each of the last three years.
This year we are at 5.3 inches. The trees in the area are starting to show signs of distress.
So, I will have to start watering my trees. {the shade trees not the apple trees, but those I am used to needing to water when ever we have a serious dry spell}
We’re suffering from the same problem. The rain we do get is short but occasionally heavy for a few minutes. I’ve been watering the garden with sprinklers, I can cover the whole garden with 2. Apple trees are mulched so they don’t need too much but the sprinklers reach them anyway. I have about 25 apples this year, mostly on 1 tree. Had a problem, maybe with leaf rollers, I sprinkled SEVIN on the curled up leaves and now the trees are growing again.
I have about 15 baby apple trees to give away, either fall or early spring, if anyone is interested. Pick up only though.
For some reason I don’t have a problem with this. Dude wouldn’t pull over, did pull over, then left, and had to be stopped with stop sticks.
Yeah he was complying, yeah, he had his hands up. But having 90 lbs of teeth all over you could cause someone to re-think their bad decisions. He and his lawyer are likely to get a tax-funded payday tho’.
‘Do not release the dog;’ Semi chase ends with unarmed man being attacked by K-9 in central Ohio
TL;DR
But I can guess from the headline that this is Exhibit A of why we are where we are as a country.
This is not national news. It’s red meat for the racist Antifa set.
Meh, CNN. Not known for truthiness.
Wife and I watched The Menu (on ppv) and loved it. Drinker had recommended it, and I add to that.
What difference does it make whether we email Teh Hype about what we’re reading a week in advance so it’s in the body of the WWAR post or say the same thing in a comment on the post?
What are you some kind a anarchist? Should we not have morning links because we could all just post our opinions on the days events on the overnight post after Sean rings the wake up glibbies bell?
Not everyone reads all the comments, plus if you aren’t necessarily going to comment right away on the article, people will see it easier.
So we need to make it easier? Put some work in son
Not everyone reads the articles.
Wait, there’s articles?
I use them to hide controvertial information because nobody reads my work.
Thanks for your answer, Lack. Sorry about the delay – I’ve been reading a book. 🙂
Paul Burmeister is the Kevin Costner of cycling broadcasting
Meme test
https://hotair.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/F1MTQGWaIAAZamg.png
LOL!
Pass.
I was helped out by someone using pronouns in their username tonight (not here, of course). Did me a solid.
I’m sure they’d have felt differently about doing so if they knew I was such a shitlord.
Evolution is bad at it’s job, I still want to lick it. (Which one I mean I’ll leave up to your imagination)
I’m tired of arguing.
Have some of Minneapolis’s finest.
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I remember that from somewhere that isn’t MTV.
Another from the same album.
I’m lobbying to get my daughter’s band to cover some SA.
This is a perfect one.
I shouldn’t have been surprised but for some reason I was expecting Hüsker Dü. 🤷♂️
For you.
Thank you! That’s arguably the best f-u song ever.
Also from Twin Cities (I think). Sadly they are the pinkos their cute pun name suggests.
Since Static-X released Project Regeneration 1 I’ve been getting more into them than I was back in the day. I originally only bought their first 3 albums. Now I’ve started going back and buying the ones I didn’t buy. RIP Wayne.
OT: rescue cat update.
Buzz and I had a breakthrough today. I was watching TV, sitting on the couch, and Buzz approached and meowed a few times. I didn’t know what she wanted, so I reached down and scratched her head. Yup, that’s what she wanted!
Buzz kept walking back and forth while I provided the scritches. She’s one of those cats whose butt goes up when she is scratched in her back right in front of her tail. 😊 I didn’t want to overdo it with the pats and scritches, so I stopped, and she turned and looked at me with a “Did I say you could stop?” look on her face. I couldn’t get any really good pictures but I tried!
About 15 minutes later she permitted me to take a break. She has a very loud purr! She definitely feels comfortable today and has been strutting around marking everything she can reach with the scent glands in her chin.
Honestly she surprised me with how fast she went from “don’t put your hand near me!” BAP! BAP! BAP! To “More scritches, please.”
She’s a cutie. She is currently kneading on the sheepskin rug and grunting at people and dogs she can see in the parking lot.
My oldest sister’s cat popped my inflatable Miller Lite arm chair. That is sin I will hold against the entire species until my death. Also, I’m allergic and can’t breathe when they are around, and every cat owners house smells like cat piss; but the popping of the inflatable chair is the true sin that all of the species can never be forgiven for.
Sorry for the loss of your chair.
SNL’s James Austin Johnson wowed with his Trump and Biden impressions: tinyurl.com/3vbry2v4
Is he paying residuals to the people he impersonates or is he a lying thief like that AL guy everyone talks about?
But seriously, if you think AI can do your job better their are 3 things at play:
1: You suck at your job.
2. You don’t understand that ‘AI’ as it stands now, and for the foreseeable future, sucks at doing your job even worse.
C: You’re dumb.
~. Watch Wednesday’s cartoon
Dammit. A proper link. And a less annoying format.
https://twitter.com/wgnmorningnews/status/1679873868708683776?s=46&t=g7EG4Y-juKY6VXgHEzprrQ
Somewhat on topic.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12300775/SUE-REID-EU-react-millions-Europeans-shifting-populist-Right-wing-groups.html
Compare the scary headline:
“ How will the EU react to millions of Europeans shifting to populist Right-wing groups?”
To the article content:
“All favour halting uncontrolled migration, tackling crime, promoting traditional families and pausing hated EU laws aimed at forcing people to alter their lifestyles to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.”
If you grab the letters and rearrange them you can spell “in_ade Poland and fly zeros.”
Setec Astronomy.
Of all the “I don’t think it works like that” moments of the movie, the one that jumped out to me most was being able to call the CIA and say “Director of Operations please.”
Uptight Chefs don’t have time for the general public.
Haven’t their socialists figured out how to fortify elections yet?
Good morning, you very fine people.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sZTpLvsYYHw
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Morning Sean.
I’m shocked that you had to look up Krupnik.
I think it’s not very widespread unless there is a strong Polish contingent in the area. It sells out every Christmas back home, and now I make my own.
For the record I got up to 13 Saturday night, with almost no ill effects, got up at 7, did breakfast and mowed the yard before 9. I think I’ve officially given up on alcohol, beyond having a drink or two to take the edge off of a long day.
It’s one of the few types of alcohol that I have no trouble with. So I take it personally. I’m not supposed to have obscure tastes!
You can get away with that where you live?? On a weekend morning?? I don’t think our neighbors would really respond with pitchforks and torches, but they’d want to.
I’m up by 5 most mornings. Any later in the day and it’ll be about 100 degrees, so I’ve already waited a long time by 8 and doing it any later isn’t an option to me.
In that case, I trust you’re not the only one mowing on that schedule so as to avoid heat exhaustion or worse.
There was a whole song about it in the 1960s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7TT4jnnWys
My favorite musical. Thanks.
Honestly it’s kind of amazing how little social discourse has changed in the last 60+ years.
My aunt and uncle played out that story IRL, with a happier ending. Uncle was in an Irish gang from north of 181st St., ain’t a Puerto Rican lass from 173rd St. He once told me he was risking a beating or worse when venturing into Puerto Rican territory south of 181st. They were married for 65 years. I miss them.
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Good morning, Sean, U, and Ted’S!
More filling in for Reliable Coworker this morning, after which I resume avoiding working on the Board meeting minutes.
Mornin’, reprobates. I identify as a nonstandard glib. I don’t drink, do drugs or shoot, and i love the Beatles. Not sure why I’m hanging around here.
Good morning, ‘patzie! You know you just can’t quit us! 😁
Perish the thought.
Well, the trap we set for our resident groundhog has finally caught a critter. Not the groundhog, but a rather cute juvenile raccoon. I know they are nasty little vermin but this one looked so pathetic I almost felt sorry for it. Somehow the young of every species of mammal or avian seem to tug at the heartstrings. Or maybe I just miss having little ones running around the house wrecking shit.
James Blackwood somehow has “his” raccoons under control.
Good grief.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5s6nn47n9Ao
There’s apparently a family of groundhogs living under our next door neighbors’ yard barn. I’m not sure what efforts they’ve made to eradicate them. We stopped putting dry cat food out on the back patio for the neighborhood outdoor cats because of the damn raccoons, though they may sneak up onto the front porch if Gracie, the female tabby who comes around to eat and to flirt with our toms, has left any food behind there.
How are the cats doing?
The indoor cats are doing great, though they can’t visit with Gracie these days – besides the heat, we no longer leave the front door open so they can watch their “tall screen TV.” When a neighbor cat who is NOT Gracie comes around – in this case, Silas the friendly tom from around the corner – Grady (Big Dumb-But-Sweet Cat) lunges at him, loosening and threatening to damage the only-just-repaired-at-no-small-expense-at-the-hardware-store door screen.
Shame about the agression.
(Of course, letting all the cool air out doesn’t work too well)
We had to stop leaving cat bowls on the porch 24×7 because most of the food was being eaten by the fattest opossum on record.